[Qgis-developer] The first column in the attribute table

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for the feedback.
Just a short note to avoid confusion: the number in old versions
(<=2.14) was not the feature id.

Matthias

On 19/06/16 13:17, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> Thank you for these fixes - it is now more intuitive for me than
> before - and still shows the internatl feature ID - should one dev or
> admin need it.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 17.06.2016 19:19, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> as of today there's also the feature id shown in the tooltip of the
>> attribute table's column header. I think this will help one or
>> another developer once in a while.
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> On 16/06/16 10:34, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you, Matthias!
>>>
>>> I will test it.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>> On 2016-06-16 09:35, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sure, you are right,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, the commit message was wrong but the code is ok.
>>>>
>>>> Matthias
>>>>
>>>> On 06/16/2016 09:28 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
>>>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>>>
>>>>> Column header numbers? Aren't we discussing row header numbers?
>>>>>
>>>>> Andreas
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2016-06-16 09:25, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Andreas
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It took me less time than it took me to write this email
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/9f704d6e92b922555bddb3a5a648edaac2aedf34
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Matthias
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 06/16/2016 09:18 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If there are no negative side effects - I'd like to see the same
>>>>>>> behaviour like in spreadsheets - an always ascending list,
>>>>>>> starting from
>>>>>>> 1 - regardless of the order of the rows.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Would this be a lot of work to change this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Andreas
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2016-06-16 09:06, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Andreas,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I always thought that they are the feature ID. But not even
>>>>>>>> that, often
>>>>>>>> they are "feature id - 1", but that's not guaranteed at all.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We could make it match the feature id. Or the current index in
>>>>>>>> the table
>>>>>>>> like you propose.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Matthias
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 06/16/2016 08:56 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'd like to discuss an issue in the attribute table.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There is this very first column (not stored in the provider) which
>>>>>>>>> lists
>>>>>>>>> the features as they appear in the provider (by default, if not
>>>>>>>>> re-ordered by the user). What are these values? Some internal
>>>>>>>>> ID not
>>>>>>>>> present in the data? Or some internal ID from the qt table widget?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am just wondering, because regarding this first column, QGIS
>>>>>>>>> behaves
>>>>>>>>> different from Spreadsheets.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> When you reorder the table in QGIS, this very first column
>>>>>>>>> becomes "out
>>>>>>>>> of order" - spreadsheets always display 1 to xxx - nicely
>>>>>>>>> ordered -
>>>>>>>>> regardless of the sort order. Could QGIS be aligned to the
>>>>>>>>> behaviour of
>>>>>>>>> spreadsheets or is there a particular reason not do so? I
>>>>>>>>> think, from a
>>>>>>>>> users perspective, because these numbers are not present in
>>>>>>>>> the data,
>>>>>>>>> that it would be more useful if they always stay ordered from
>>>>>>>>> 1 to xxx
>>>>>>>>> or 0 to xxx, regardless of sorting.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thank you for your feedback.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Andreas
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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